

Riding Unicorns: Venture Capital | Entrepreneurship | Technology
Meet the people building the future. Hosted by investors James Pringle and Hector Mason, Riding Unicorns goes inside the companies, ideas and decisions shaping the future of technology. Each episode features candid conversations with leading founders, operators and investors about what it really takes to build and back category-defining companies. From finding product-market fit and raising capital to hiring exceptional teams, scaling globally and navigating the moments that can make or break a company, we explore the lessons you rarely find in the playbooks. Whether you're building, investing or simply interested in how great technology companies are created, Riding Unicorns gives you a front-row seat to the people doing it.
Episodes


Building Satellites Closer to Earth: Anatolii Papulov, CEO of NewOrbit, on VLEO, SpaceTech and the Future of Space Infrastructure

6 Years, 250+ Episodes: James & Hector on Venture, AI, Investing and the Lessons We’ve Learned

Powering the AI Era: Karl Bach, CEO of Axle Energy on Virtual Power Plants and Building in the Physical World

Building the Data Brain for AI Agents: Toby Mather, Co-Founder of Rig, on Data Infrastructure, Enterprise Sales and the Agentic Future

Building AI Workers for the Physical Economy: Robin Van Aeken, CEO of Magentic, on Agents, Manufacturing and Supply Chains

Scaling a Unicorn at Machine Speed: Mirko Novakovic, CEO of Dash0, on AI-Native Engineering and Growth

Building a Profitable AI Company: Krish Ramineni, CEO of Fireflies.ai, on Virality, AI Agents and Scaling

Building a Breakout Consumer Brand: Gyve Safavi, Co-Founder & CEO of SURI, on Product, Margins and Scaling

Fixing Music Royalties: Ryan Edwards, CEO of Audoo, on Data, Hardware and Building the Industry Standard

Building Sovereign AI: Yang Li, CEO of Cosine on AI Models, Coding Agents and the UK's Frontier AI Future

Ashley Montanaro, CEO of Phasecraft on Quantum Advantage, Deep Tech, and the Future of Computing

Kate Jarvis, CEO of Fifth Dimension on PropTech, Vertical AI and Building the Bloomberg Terminal for Real Estate

Laura Modiano, Head of Founder Experience @ OpenAI on Building in the AI Era, and Why Anyone Can Now Create a Company

How Cleo Reached $400M ARR: Barney Hussey-Yeo on AI, Growth, and Building a Consumer Fintech Unicorn

The Future of Finance is AI-Native: Jonathan Sanders, CEO of Light, on Organic Software, AI Agents, and Rebuilding Business Finance

Steve Domin, Founder & CEO @ Duffel – Rebuilding Travel Infrastructure, Surviving COVID, and the Future of API-First Companies

Building the backbone of AI with Mahdi Yahya, Co-Founder @ Radiant on Compute, Power and the Future of Infrastructure

Charlotte Palmer, VP of Venture Capital at Integra Global Advisors on Backing Emerging Managers, Access, and Venture Fundraising

Inside Fuse Energy: Alan Chang on Building a $5B Energy Giant and Chasing £1B ARR
Fuse Energy CEO Alan Chang details the company’s evolution into a major industry player with a $5 billion valuation. The energy sector faces systemic grid connection delays of up to 20 years, forcing a strategy where companies must effectively "become the grid" to bypass infrastructure bottlenecks. Through automation, ...
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